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GPT-4o-mini vs GPT-5.4 Nano

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GPT-5.4 Nano wins 9 of 10 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge · general.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
GPT-4o-mini
#254 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.4 Nano
#237 by perf·#4 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
1.7x better value than GPT-5.4 Nano
GPT-4o-mini
77.9 pts/$
$0.38/M
GPT-5.4 Nano
45.1 pts/$
$0.72/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-4o-miniGPT-5.4 Nano
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +5.7
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-4o-mini
0.0
GPT-5.4 Nano
5.7
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +26.4
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-4o-mini
0.0
GPT-5.4 Nano
26.4
Dtbench
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +43.1
GPT-4o-mini
24.0
GPT-5.4 Nano
67.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +44.2
GPT-4o-mini
0.7
GPT-5.4 Nano
44.9
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +54.3
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-4o-mini
17.0
GPT-5.4 Nano
71.3
Lmca
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +31.2
GPT-4o-mini
12.2
GPT-5.4 Nano
43.4
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-4o-mini leads by +3.1
GPT-4o-mini
3.1
GPT-5.4 Nano
0.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +80.9
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-4o-mini
6.8
GPT-5.4 Nano
87.8
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +3.4
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-4o-mini
8.3
GPT-5.4 Nano
11.7
WeirdML
GPT-5.4 Nano leads by +37.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
GPT-4o-mini
11.8
GPT-5.4 Nano
49.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-4o-miniGPT-5.4 Nano
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
0.05.7
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
0.026.4
Dtbench
24.067.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
0.744.9
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
17.071.3
Lmca
12.243.4
Mystery Game Puzzles
3.10.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.887.8
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
8.311.7
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
11.849.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-4o-mini$0.15$0.60128K tokens (~64 books)$2.62
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Nano$0.20$1.25400K tokens (~200 books)$4.63